Scheduling a flow shop with simultaneously loaded stations: A real world application
- Companies use special designed flow shops, in order to satisfy specific demands. Products need to be transported (from one station to the next station) by a crane and the way of working of this crane excludes the intermediate storage (of a work piece). In addition, the way of working restricts the set of feasible schedules even more than the no-buffer restriction discussed in the literature in the case of limited storage. Since this scheduling problem is integrated in the usual hierarchical planning, the tardiness is minimised. A linear optimisation model is presented to provide a formal description of this NP-hard problem. It is also used to explain the performance of priority rule based heuristic solutions on small test problems. In detail, priority rules as well as a priority rule based branch and bound procedure are analysed; priority rules are regarded, because a priority rule is still the standard procedure for on-line scheduling in industrial practise. Out of successful priority rules in the literature the best one is identified by an extensive simulative investigation. An improved look-ahead is realised by a restricted search over all possible schedules.
Verfasserangaben: | Frank HerrmannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17265/2328-2231/2015.03.004 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Journal of Control Science and Engineering |
Dokumentart: | Artikel aus einer Zeitschrift/Zeitung |
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: | Englisch |
Jahr der Veröffentlichung: | 2015 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 24.01.2020 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Minimising tardiness; No buffer and no wait; Optimisation model; Priority rule based branch and bound procedure; Priority rules; Real world flow shop with restrictions; Scheduling |
GND-Schlagwort: | Fließfertigung; Flow-shop-Problem |
Jahrgang: | 3 |
Erste Seite: | 147 |
Letzte Seite: | 163 |
Fakultäten / Institute / Einrichtungen: | Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik |
OpenAccess Publikationsweg: | Gold Open Access- Erstveröffentlichung in einem/als Open-Access-Medium |
Forschungsschwerpunkt: | Produktion und Systeme |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - CC BY-ND - Namensnennung - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |